[0836] The Divine Comedy, Page 33 (Manga Studio Adventures)
└ posted on Monday, 7 November 2016, by Novil
- Sandra: Liz, my leg’s stuck!
- Larisa: Don’t move! I’m coming!
- Inventory: Samsung phone, Slice of pizza, Carbon rod (inanimate), Gorbachev keyring, Paint brush (with paint)
- Abilites: Pyromania, Artistry, Precociousness
- Caption: If Larisa destroys the killer digger with a rocket, she’ll save Sandra’s life. However, the explosion will also cause the collapse of the already unstable floor. The digger will fall down and crush the five boy scouts who have been lured there by the nefarious angels. Now it’s up to you to help Larisa to make the best of this trolley problem! Make a suggestion what she should do in the comment section! (With a sketch if you like.) We will use the best suggestion for the next strip!
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If you want to provide a sketch along your suggestion you should upload it to http://www.imgur.com/ or a similar image hosting service.
Psh, easy solution. Prime and throw the Samsung to destroy the AI in the digger without destroying it utterly. if need be, take the warhead off one of the rockets and strap the phone there instead- smaller more localized explosion.
Rocket Jump is the best option. By blowing away the rubble that she is standing on it will create a ramp that the boycotts could use. Then she can help Sandra get her leg free.
YOU CAN’T DO THAT!
Quoted from the wonderful Watterson:
http://assets.amuniversal.com/9396ca90dec7013171a3005056a9545d
@ Sambo:
Argh, messed up the comment. The bold was supposed to end with the italics.
Samsung phone
Larisa should shoot the Digger at its HIGHEST point, that way the force of the explosion will TOPPLE the Digger, BUT, not destroy the floor, that way bot Sandra and the Boy Scout will live
Okay, this was one funny strip.
How to solve the problem: if the floor is already unstable it is probably only a matter of time before it collapses under the weight of the killer digger. For this reason the scouts are sadly already dead boys walking, and the only appropriate course of action is to shoot the killer digger.
Either that or attack the arm of the killer digger, which would mean that it can only attack by running over.
Blow it away. It’s just boyscouts. There are no such a thing as innocent boyscouts.
Tie Samsung to the Carbon Rod and attach Gorbachov keyring to them.
Then rip out the ring (we all know, every Gorbachov keyring has mini nuclear reactor inside) to set off the fuse, the toss the rod into the cabin, where Gorbachov will detonate Samsung, causing locale inner explosion, with a huge burst of flame (thanks to enchanced fire radius by Pyromania).
That’s all while larisa eats her pizza slice. ;p
Contact the Devil and find out if those boy scouts are acceptable losses for upper management.
lol, its obvious. Use Samsung phone as a minor explosive to break hydraulic pipes. That will disable the arm of digger and give time to boy scouts to evacuate.Then she can safely use her RPG to put digger, where it belongs.
(also she could throw pizza into the hole which would attract Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and wait till they deal with digger while painting Clouds portrait and taking selfie with it. But there is no guarantee that Turtles are hungry at the moment)
She should text cloud about the situation and watch how fast he gets there by the speed of love
Larisa shoots the earth-mover as expected, then calls up The Devil on her phone and suggests that the recently deceased Boy Scouts might make excellent “recruits” as the Nefarious Angels had betrayed them to the Pyromanicial whims of Hell’s latest succubus-in-training. Otherwise, if she has enough time to do so before the earth-mover “gets” Sandra, she might call the Devil in first to get the boy-scouts out of the way and blast the earth mover all the same. The Devil could then recruit the boys while they are still living.
The is simple, really. The Angels did not get permission to kill that many innocents on this day. If they really did that, then Upper Management would have to get involved, and not even God wants to deal with Them. As such, the boy scouts are clearly a trick and will be saved by the Angels at the last minute. (Also why we have so many stories of Angels saving people)
As such Larissa should just fire away at the digger. (Doing so also explains all the stories where agents of the Devil are evil comes from. I mean, seriously, risking killing boy-scouts who just helped 20 old ladies across the road two hours ago? For shame!)
Shoot carbon rod into far wheel tread of digger. Fixed point causes digger to turn on point and away from Sandra. Digger is no longer necessarily atop Boy Scouts, causing less danger to them.
@ Novil:
Easy, shoot the rocket to intentionally collapse the floor to the right of Sandra. According to ctoon physics, Sandra falls through the floor, mostly unharmed.
Also an option would be to use the ring on the keychain to damage the fuse of the shape charge, rendering it a kinetic weapon. As long as Larisa has good enough aim, she can hit a weak spot and jam a joint or something.
Oh right, so internet argument: The conical style warhead you drew that is generally seen in our world as an antitank weapon. The one I am thinking of doesn’t *boom* so much as pop and sizzle.
https://youtu.be/kLj4zaoMkRE
If it’s a HEAT round, it’s just going to melt the engine.
Throw the Samsung phone on a vital system, with a bit of luck, it may explode enough to destroy it without the floor to collapse.
@ shenshinoman:
This is actuall reallyy smart. Those might be the angels again.
Three rockets left? Aim one for the digger’s tread; that will keep it from moving any closer. Reload and shoot the bucket arm where it attaches to the chassis. No mobility, no weapon, no problem.
If world of tanks has taught me anything, shoot something in the tracks if you want to immobilise it.
1 – Open Larisa photos on Samsung phone and drop it into the hole to lure boy scouts away from the danger.
2 – Fire 1 rocket at Target sign, to create a bridge.
3 – Put Gorbachev keychang in front of the Digger camera, blocking it’s view
3 – Use paintbrush to paint a moustache and beard in Sandra, further confounding the angels.
4 – Now that you have time, drop the Target sign in the hole, and use the pizza to lure the boys out.
5 – Ask boys scouts to free Sandra.
6 – Meanwhile, use Rocket Lauch and carbon rod to jam one of the caterpillar tracks.
If video games have thought me anything, it’s kill stealing. Shoot the Boy Scouts, causing the floor to collapse and taking out the digger. Doing so will add +6 kills to her killstreak and probably unlock a care package or something…
In all seriousness, put the key chain on the end of the rod and use the paint brush to give Gorbachev angry eyebrow to intimidate the machine. No body likes an angry Russian.
@ Bob C:
thank you. The idea that they were actually the angels is what literally spawned the entire concept… but I wanted to also continue the “Upper Management *shakes fist*” running gag.
Fire a rocket launcher under the machine on the other side of the boy scouts, which will cause them to run away from that direction, then fire at will at the machine.
The current correct solution to the trolley problem is this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N_RZJUAQY4
The EASIEST method
Step one (Part 1): Play porn on the phone (also matches as Larissa is training to be a succubus)
Step one (Part 2): Combine with free pizza to lure out the boy scouts (the first out gets pizza, but they all get porn
step two: blow up the machine
Problem solved!
YOU MONSTER!@ Senjiu:
Somewhere, there is someone praying to God to protect everyone, and somewhere, God is ignoring his calls, proving he is a giant douche.
Seriously though, Larissa should shoot the digger, then jump in front of it to protect the scouts, the act of sacrifice will then unlock previously unknown powers, allowing her to assault God directly.
Save Sandra of course @ Titan:
this is probobly the best idea
@ Bedinsis:
but this is also true
Titan wrote:
Bedinsis wrote:
I replied instead of quoting
If you shoot the top-most pat of the digger’s arm, the force of the explosion on the ground will be minimal. In fact, it will be offset by the impact, since Larissa is below the point of contact. Furthermore, hitting far away from the fulcrum (opposite treads) gives this attack the best chance of toppling the digger off of the unstable floor, saving the boy scouts. Then jump the gap. Judging by panel 3, should be easy.
Pizza is always the answer.
She can of course throw the slice of pizze on the front window of the digger, blinding it at that side.
Then drop the (collapsable) carbon rod to the boy scouts, who can use it to support the floor (or ceiling, from their point of view) and later on to climb out of the hole.
After that she can paint a running Sandra on the Samsung Phone, and project that image behind the digger, so that when it tries to orientate itself it’ll see that and head backwards, away from Sandra.
When it has done that, and is off the unstable floor, shoot it with a rocket (aim for the tracks).
Lastly the Gorbachev keyring obviously is some useful russian gadget, like a miniature very strong magnet or grappling hook and has an extendable strong key ‘chain’ as well (made from something non-metallic obviously) so it an be used to swing over the hole, help Sandra and then be used to help the boyscouts as well (if they don’t think of using the pole to climb out).
Net result would be she’d have saved Sandra, still have 2 rockets, the phone (which can function as distraction again), the keyring and will regain the rod as well as soon as the boyscouts have climbed out.
I’ll admit it’s a bit low on the pyromania but she’ll have reason to use those other 2 rockets soon enough to even satisfy her.
Samsung phone: there is an app for it!
Option 1: Spot the killer digger’s sensors and blind them with paint and / or gooey cheese from the pizza. This will cause it to be unable to locate Sandra to attack her, buying time for Larisa to free her and the boy scouts to make their escape.
Option 2: Just worry about saving the boy scouts – I’m pretty sure Sandra has plot armour.
Option 3: Woo turns up with Groot, who immobilises the digger.
Fire at the ceiling above the digger and hope the falling rubble will immobilize the digger or block the digger’s path, without creating an explosion that would trigger the floor collapse.
this is my idea.
someone posted a similar idea earlier, though i came up with this before reading the comments.
http://imgur.com/a/G2A04 also i have visuals!
Larisa has more than one rocket. First, she can shoot out the treads, rendering it immobile. Then, she can take out the digger claw, disarming it. The machine is harmless by then.
She should take off her shirt and use the power of boobs to compel the boyscouts to shield Sandra, then shoot the digger near the top – knocking it over and back.
Make that compel the boyscouts to move out of the way, if they don’t obey the power of boobs they are angles – shoot them
This whole thing was planned out beforehand, with the help of the program.
That Sandra is actually an illusion produced by a combination of the carbon and paint with audio clips played from the Samsung beforehand. This is all just a ploy to get rid of that particular digger, which would be a nuisance otherwise. Just lure the Boy Scouts away with the pizza and the free keychain, and blow it up when it is far enough away. Sandra is already safely where she needs to be for the moment, which is not within the blast radius of that rocket launcher.
Devil Trickery!
Rocket jump to the killer digger; use rod.
Honestly, I don’t see any moral quandries to this situation. the boy scouts are easily denyable with there current position, and sandra’s life is more important to her.
Just fire the rocket, and if anyone asks about the scout troop later just deny all knowledge.
Shoot the fire albums on the samsung phone, boosted by the carbon, out of the rocket launcher at the ceiling to look cool. Then use the keychain to stop the diggers.
@ John Willow:
Or by the speed of love lol
Perhaps she could blow the ceiling above the digger, trapping it so she can get over to Sandra and minimizing the chance of killing the boy scouts.
Ok… not sure why shw has samsung phone, wasn’t she supposed to have the super-slim new apple? But I am quite sure she can use samsung patented explosive/self-inflamattory feature, immobilise the digger with it (for example by throwing it inside and doing internal damage) the explosion would be more contained and wouldn’t risk breaking the floor. She should have enough time to get sandra. She can aslo use paint brush to desecrate the digger in heretic graffiti, to draw the attention of angels, and use the disctraction to escape (sandra will likely demand they help the scouts, surely threatening them with the bazooka will make them leave very quickly)
Easy. Use the paintbrush to paint a support beam that will keep the floor from collapsing and then shoot the digger